Definition of Pyrola. Meaning of Pyrola. Synonyms of Pyrola

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Definition of Pyrola

Pyrola
Wintergreen Win"ter*green`, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry. Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower. Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms. Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.

Meaning of Pyrola from wikipedia

- Pyrola /ˈpɪrələ/ is a genus of evergreen herbaceous plants in the family Ericaceae. Under the old Cronquist system it was placed in its own family Pyrolaceae...
- Pyrola crypta, commonly known as cryptic wintergreen, is a perennial herb in the heath family. Pyrola crypta resembles other members of the genus Pyrola...
- Pyrola americana, the American wintergreen, is a plant species native to Canada and the United States. It has been reported from every Canadian province...
- Pyrola minor, known by the common names snowline wintergreen, lesser wintergreen, and common wintergreen, is a plant species of the genus Pyrola. It is...
- Pyrola picta, commonly called whiteveined wintergreen or whitevein shinleaf, is a perennial herb in the heath family. It is native to western North America...
- Pyrola media, the intermediate wintergreen, is a flowering plant in the genus Pyrola, native to northern and eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a herbaceous...
- Pyrola grandiflora (pronunciation (US), commonly known as Arctic wintergreen or largeflowered wintergreen, is a hardy perennial evergreen subshrub in the...
- It is also called one-sided pyrola, one-sided shinleaf, and one-sided wintergreen. It was previously part of genus Pyrola, the wintergreens. The plant...
- Pyrola dentata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, with the common name toothed wintergreen. The glaucous leaf blade is 2-9 cm long...
- Pyrola elliptica, known as shinleaf, shinleaf pyrola, waxflower shinleaf, elliptic shineleaf and white wintergreen is a species of heath. The plant has...